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The home secretary is set to unveil sweeping reforms to tackle illegal immigration, as she considers potential changes to human rights law.
Shabana Mahmood will announce on Monday a series of measures to make it easier to remove and deport illegal migrants, and reduce the “pull factors” that make the UK attractive to asylum seekers.
The Home Office said they would be the “most sweeping reforms to tackle illegal migration in modern times”.
She is said to believe that “excessive generosity and ease of remaining” in the UK, along with systemic barriers, has made deportations extremely difficult, The Times reported.
It is understood that many of the changes set to be proposed by the home secretary will be modelled on the Danish system, under which 95% of failed asylum seekers are deported.
Denmark has tighter rules on family reunions, and restricts some refugees to a temporary stay.
Read more: Could Danish model save Labour’s bacon?
Ms Mahmood is also mulling reforms to the European Convention on Human Rights and human rights law to “end the abuse of the system that leads to unjustified claims to delay or stop deportations”, a Home Office source said.
The overhaul of modern slavery laws will require migrants to make a claim that they have been a victim as soon as they arrive in the UK, rather than allowing them to raise it unexpectedly later on, which has resulted in delayed deportations, The Telegraph reported.
The number of offences qualifying foreign criminals for automatic removal is also set to be increased, the paper said.
And judges are expected to be required to prioritise public…
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